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Tumefactive demyelination after covid-19 successfully treated with betainterferon 1A

The Marburg variant of MS is a rare variant that leads to a severe clinical course, with a high rate of mortality or severe residual deficits and unclear pathophysiology. A 20-year-old female patient, presented at the hospital emergency with left inferior limb paresis and visual blurring. The neurol...

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Autores principales: Araújo, Victor Oliveira, Marcelino, Paulo Filho Soares, Rabelo, Samuel Ramos, Junior, Fabio Antonio Serra de Lima, Teixeira, Vitor Gil Gonçalves, Eisele, Roberto Rocha, Eisele, Afonso Rocha, de Carvalho, João Pedro Serenario Ferreira, Filho, Luciano Barroso de Albuquerque, de Medeiros, Sara Diógenes Peixoto, Oliveira, Leandro Freitas, Claudino dos Santos, Julio Cesar, Júnior, Euldes Mendes
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9438400/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36068807
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2022.06.090
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Sumario:The Marburg variant of MS is a rare variant that leads to a severe clinical course, with a high rate of mortality or severe residual deficits and unclear pathophysiology. A 20-year-old female patient, presented at the hospital emergency with left inferior limb paresis and visual blurring. The neurologic exam showed complete and proportionate left hemiparesis with pyramidal signs and clonus, loss of proprioception and vibration in lower limbs, tactile, and painful hypoesthesia on the left side. This report describes a rare case of Marburg variant associated with COVID-19 infection.